Ohh Ooooh! But he linked to wikipedia, unlike your citation free posts. That sort of authority is just too appealing, I'm gonna haveta side with the loudmouthed moron on this one.
You hit the nail on the head as to why I ripped those bastards out on my XP system. After having to alt-tab back for the hundredth time, I realised I'd never, ever actually wanted to press that key, and likely never would. Most people think I need a new keyboard, but no, I need an old one. Preferably one of those 1984 M series IBM ones mentioned in TFA, well proportioned, beautiful keystroke response, so sturdy you could club a baby seal to death. My last one got trashed by my former flatmate's pet rat though, they aren't indestructible.
You're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Your 'egalitarian' solution looks more totalitarian. You have quite a disparity between people and organizations for starters, besides which there would be many slashdotters with more than 10 domains to their name already. Nice crack at a solution, but you would do more damage to techies than the current screwed up but manageable situation.
The correct solution is to get ICANN to stamp down on this abuse of the grace system.
Your latter point is extremely valid, still the sentimental part of me wishes them the best of luck. They are trying to recreate a classic work of art in a new medium, and I believe similar to Warhol and Campbells soup that they should be allowed to do just that. My head agrees with you, my heart wishes this to happen. If the world was a different place this effort should have earned them employment at Blizzard.
Simple difference, I don't want to boycott bittorrent because it is used for piracy, I do want to boycott diamonds because they contribute to human misery.
In fact you can get a pretty decent minimal editing environment out of Word with a few simple steps, such as:
* Switching off all the autocorrection, autoreplace and autoformatting features.
* Using a concept font (Extras -> Options -> View, at the bottom)
* Switching to white-on-blue text (Extras -> Options -> General)
* Editing in full-screen mode (View -> Full screen) Why not just run 1-2-3 in dosbox?
Yes, we here at slashdot have forgiven Microsoft all their evils. That borg look we gave Bill is just because robots are cool, almost as cool as Microsoft. 2008 will be the year of the Microsoft desktop as we wipe linux off for the awesomely secure power of Vista. Sony taught us that it is right and good that powerful multinationals treat their customers as criminals, as it should be. All is well in slashland, all we need now is to bring the ponies back.
Oh, and Cthulu needs not the puny votes of mortal flesh.
What of all the currently legal class A drugs that are derivatives of opiates, meth and cocaine? They are legal, controlled and often more addictive than what they were derived from. Why shouldn't meth etc. fall under this category of being available from doctors?
These comments reek of jealousy. The peoples sweat is volunteered by them, and in return Jimmy gives them free hosting and exposure while making a tidy profit. He's a hero of the public domain movement to me, he has enabled an unparalleled wealth of free content (perhaps Sourceforge is a parallel), anyone who finds a way to make open collaboration profitable and therefore competitive in this capitalist world should be heralded a champion of the open source movement. Profit is not intrinsically good or evil, but it is a cornerstone of our western society, and without it foundations crumble. He deserves all the wealth coming to him, and is one of the few that makes the world a better place whilst achieving his profits. Thanks Jimmy.
I always imagine twitter as that neurotic caffeine hooked Tweak kid from south park. I'm still undecided who is worse between him and Dvorak, probably twitter as he actually believes in his bullshit.
So what does a main course do, feed you for a month? Entrees are meant to whet the appetite, not feed a family. Still, it sounds better than here where the more expensive meals get the smaller they get. Now that's truly inexplicable.
* No right to privacy in federal constitution, though one territory now includes the right to privacy within its bill of rights
So the ACT is the only place with an explicit right to privacy.
* Comprehensive privacy laws at federal level and others within some states and territories, but there are broad exemptions that have precluded action by the privacy commissioner against small businesses and political parties; and does not meet international standards * Power of commissioner diminished because determinations are not legally binding
We have good privacy laws and a commissioner, but there are many ways around these laws and the commissioner has no legal authority.
* Numerous reports of data breaches, including at the taxation office, child support agency, and even amongst the police
Typical of many contries, these seem the most serious breaches of our privacy, but are trumped by the next items.
* High level of interception activity; no notification requirement to innocent participants to communications * Expanded surveillance powers in 2004
Bet you didn't know about that one. Our new 'anti-terror' laws are full of little gems like this. Big Brother is watching you.
* Movement towards electronic medical records but no opt-in protections as yet * De-identified medical data has been approved by the privacy commissioner for sale to pharmaceutical companies, despite protests
Not a huge issue, obviously the data was made anonymous but still medical records are a very personal thing. I wouldn't want mine released to anyone but a doctor treating me no matter what anonymity was given.
* Expanded financial surveillance and secret reporting * DNA collection only for serious crimes at the moment
These seem like legitamate police controls, but it's still a clear privacy violation.
* Made preliminary steps to secure passports in 2006 * New government promised to abandon ID card plans; the office of access card has been closed but senior staff have moved to other department hinting at possible proposals to emerge
Well that is a stretch, of course public servants get shuffled around when their department is abolished. It was damn close to being implemented though, and if it was I'm sure we would achieve the highest score on this chart.
* Document verification service for use by public and private sector is being implemented despite lack of privacy considerations * Abusive case of visa revocation of individual related to suspects in UK anti-terrorism case
It was a sorry day when we treated a relative of a suspect as a criminal. If my cousin in another country does something stupid, I don't want to be the one to pay the price.
None of the above is bullshit, it is all very real. Just count ourselves lucky that the national ID card didn't come in this year or we would be rated black.
Yeah, because thepiratebay.org is the only place on the entire internet where torrents are available. Please, point me to a single piece of content that you can download through thepiratebay - oh wait, they don't host any of the works do they? Double fail!
Simply, it's not optional for ISPs to offer this, it is mandatory. Probably they want to eschew any responsibility for the filters and blame ISPs for any breaches.
They should get some sort of Slashdot Troll of the Year award. Not even tubgirl, lemonparty and goatse combined has ever produced this level of outrage. Just let them get modded into oblivion and stop feeding the trolls!
Yet this is exactly what dark matter would imply, matter or energy that cannot be detected in the EM spectrum. There may be a WIMP spectrum analogous to the electromagnetic spectrum, a gravity wave spectrum, there may be other interpretations like TFA that don't require this invisible mass, there may be other forces at work only noticeable on a galactic scale. His comment is no more or less stupid than the current use of dark matter in equations.
Well, isn't the pull of gravity and the push of the void the same thing from different perspectives? As in, both are valid ways to view gravity - as an attracting force caused by mass or a repulsive force caused by lack of mass. How can one interpretation be valid and not the other?
But buried in your advice to the GP is a conceited fallacy which is common in anti-death-penalty argument: the idea that the legal system needs to be perfect before it takes a life. Wrong. Nothing is perfect. Mistakes will be made. Suck it up. But we abandon such obviously good ideas as "do away with those who are not fit to live" to the peril of our society. Should we argue that humanity needs perfecting before we abolish the death penalty? The GP is overreacting (and isn't really more or less anonymous than the GGP), but this is a perfectly valid reason not to support the death penalty, if you drop the fallacy that it is an 'obviously good idea' and recognise that the life of a single innocent is too large a price to pay for the benefits of state sanctioned genocide.
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Ohh Ooooh! But he linked to wikipedia, unlike your citation free posts. That sort of authority is just too appealing, I'm gonna haveta side with the loudmouthed moron on this one.
As the alt text says, "Fun game: try to post a YouTube comment so stupid that people realize you must be joking. (Hint: this is impossible)"
Don't worry, it's a very big hill we're sliding down, and we're like a glacier compared to most sites.
"died in a computer accident" - 1 result.
You hit the nail on the head as to why I ripped those bastards out on my XP system. After having to alt-tab back for the hundredth time, I realised I'd never, ever actually wanted to press that key, and likely never would. Most people think I need a new keyboard, but no, I need an old one. Preferably one of those 1984 M series IBM ones mentioned in TFA, well proportioned, beautiful keystroke response, so sturdy you could club a baby seal to death. My last one got trashed by my former flatmate's pet rat though, they aren't indestructible.
You're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Your 'egalitarian' solution looks more totalitarian. You have quite a disparity between people and organizations for starters, besides which there would be many slashdotters with more than 10 domains to their name already. Nice crack at a solution, but you would do more damage to techies than the current screwed up but manageable situation.
The correct solution is to get ICANN to stamp down on this abuse of the grace system.
Your latter point is extremely valid, still the sentimental part of me wishes them the best of luck. They are trying to recreate a classic work of art in a new medium, and I believe similar to Warhol and Campbells soup that they should be allowed to do just that. My head agrees with you, my heart wishes this to happen. If the world was a different place this effort should have earned them employment at Blizzard.
Simple difference, I don't want to boycott bittorrent because it is used for piracy, I do want to boycott diamonds because they contribute to human misery.
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* Switching off all the autocorrection, autoreplace and autoformatting features.
* Using a concept font (Extras -> Options -> View, at the bottom)
* Switching to white-on-blue text (Extras -> Options -> General)
* Editing in full-screen mode (View -> Full screen) Why not just run 1-2-3 in dosbox?
Yes, we here at slashdot have forgiven Microsoft all their evils. That borg look we gave Bill is just because robots are cool, almost as cool as Microsoft. 2008 will be the year of the Microsoft desktop as we wipe linux off for the awesomely secure power of Vista. Sony taught us that it is right and good that powerful multinationals treat their customers as criminals, as it should be. All is well in slashland, all we need now is to bring the ponies back.
Oh, and Cthulu needs not the puny votes of mortal flesh.
I prefer CNNNN myself, if we're talking about the failure of American news.
SBS World News and George Negus' Dateline are available online, and make all other news shows pale in comparison.
What of all the currently legal class A drugs that are derivatives of opiates, meth and cocaine? They are legal, controlled and often more addictive than what they were derived from. Why shouldn't meth etc. fall under this category of being available from doctors?
These comments reek of jealousy. The peoples sweat is volunteered by them, and in return Jimmy gives them free hosting and exposure while making a tidy profit. He's a hero of the public domain movement to me, he has enabled an unparalleled wealth of free content (perhaps Sourceforge is a parallel), anyone who finds a way to make open collaboration profitable and therefore competitive in this capitalist world should be heralded a champion of the open source movement. Profit is not intrinsically good or evil, but it is a cornerstone of our western society, and without it foundations crumble. He deserves all the wealth coming to him, and is one of the few that makes the world a better place whilst achieving his profits. Thanks Jimmy.
I always imagine twitter as that neurotic caffeine hooked Tweak kid from south park. I'm still undecided who is worse between him and Dvorak, probably twitter as he actually believes in his bullshit.
So what does a main course do, feed you for a month? Entrees are meant to whet the appetite, not feed a family. Still, it sounds better than here where the more expensive meals get the smaller they get. Now that's truly inexplicable.
* No right to privacy in federal constitution, though one territory now includes the right to privacy within its bill of rights
So the ACT is the only place with an explicit right to privacy.
* Comprehensive privacy laws at federal level and others within some states and territories, but there are broad exemptions that have precluded action by the privacy commissioner against small businesses and political parties; and does not meet international standards
* Power of commissioner diminished because determinations are not legally binding
We have good privacy laws and a commissioner, but there are many ways around these laws and the commissioner has no legal authority.
* Numerous reports of data breaches, including at the taxation office, child support agency, and even amongst the police
Typical of many contries, these seem the most serious breaches of our privacy, but are trumped by the next items.
* High level of interception activity; no notification requirement to innocent participants to communications
* Expanded surveillance powers in 2004
Bet you didn't know about that one. Our new 'anti-terror' laws are full of little gems like this. Big Brother is watching you.
* Movement towards electronic medical records but no opt-in protections as yet
* De-identified medical data has been approved by the privacy commissioner for sale to pharmaceutical companies, despite protests
Not a huge issue, obviously the data was made anonymous but still medical records are a very personal thing. I wouldn't want mine released to anyone but a doctor treating me no matter what anonymity was given.
* Expanded financial surveillance and secret reporting
* DNA collection only for serious crimes at the moment
These seem like legitamate police controls, but it's still a clear privacy violation.
* Made preliminary steps to secure passports in 2006
* New government promised to abandon ID card plans; the office of access card has been closed but senior staff have moved to other department hinting at possible proposals to emerge
Well that is a stretch, of course public servants get shuffled around when their department is abolished. It was damn close to being implemented though, and if it was I'm sure we would achieve the highest score on this chart.
* Document verification service for use by public and private sector is being implemented despite lack of privacy considerations
* Abusive case of visa revocation of individual related to suspects in UK anti-terrorism case
It was a sorry day when we treated a relative of a suspect as a criminal. If my cousin in another country does something stupid, I don't want to be the one to pay the price.
None of the above is bullshit, it is all very real. Just count ourselves lucky that the national ID card didn't come in this year or we would be rated black.
Yeah, because thepiratebay.org is the only place on the entire internet where torrents are available. Please, point me to a single piece of content that you can download through thepiratebay - oh wait, they don't host any of the works do they? Double fail!
Simply, it's not optional for ISPs to offer this, it is mandatory. Probably they want to eschew any responsibility for the filters and blame ISPs for any breaches.
I can see the new tourist campaign now.. "Australia. Goatse free since 2008"
They should get some sort of Slashdot Troll of the Year award. Not even tubgirl, lemonparty and goatse combined has ever produced this level of outrage. Just let them get modded into oblivion and stop feeding the trolls!
Yet this is exactly what dark matter would imply, matter or energy that cannot be detected in the EM spectrum. There may be a WIMP spectrum analogous to the electromagnetic spectrum, a gravity wave spectrum, there may be other interpretations like TFA that don't require this invisible mass, there may be other forces at work only noticeable on a galactic scale. His comment is no more or less stupid than the current use of dark matter in equations.
Well, isn't the pull of gravity and the push of the void the same thing from different perspectives? As in, both are valid ways to view gravity - as an attracting force caused by mass or a repulsive force caused by lack of mass. How can one interpretation be valid and not the other?